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Members Of The 4th National Assembly Of Namibia
Below is a list of members of the 4th National Assembly of Namibia. They were selected by their parties based on the results of the 2004 parliamentary election. The members were in the National Assembly from 21 March 2005 until 21 March 2010. Members were chosen by their parties. Parties were voted in via proportional representation. The 4th National Assembly consisted of 78 members: 72 elected from the party lists, and 6 without voting rights, appointed by the president. This National Assembly, like each of the previous National Assemblies, was led by the South West Africa People's Organization. The seat distribution for the voting members was as follows: * South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO): 55 * Congress of Democrats (CoD): 5 * Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA): 4 * National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO): 3 * United Democratic Front (UDF): 3 * Republican Party (RP): 1 * Monitor Action Group (MAG): 1 Members The following people were members of the 4t ...
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National Assembly Of Namibia 2004
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Prime Minister Of Namibia
The prime minister of the Republic of Namibia is the leader of the Government of Namibia. The prime minister is appointed by the President of Namibia and co-ordinates the work of the Cabinet. They also advise and assist the president in the execution of the functions of government. Key ;Political parties * List of officeholders See also *Namibia **Politics of Namibia **List of colonial governors of South West Africa **President of Namibia **Vice-President of Namibia **Cabinet of Namibia *Lists of office-holders References External links World Statesmen – Namibia {{DEFAULTSORT:Prime Minister Of Namibia 1990 establishments in Namibia Government of Namibia Namibia Prime Ministers A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is no ...
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Petrus Iilonga
Petrus Iilonga (8 January 1947 – 11 December 2018) was a Namibian politician as well as a trade union leader and political prisoner in Robben Island. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Iilonga served as Deputy Minister in various Ministries and was a member of the party's Central Committee. Early life and military career Iilonga was born in Etilyasa, a settlement near Ongandjera in the Omusati Region. He attended primary school there and originally became a farm worker (from 1966). He graduated from Onakaye Boys School in 1969 and from 1970 to 1971 attended Ongwediva Training College to be trained as a motor mechanic. From 1971 he worked on the construction of the Ruacana to Calueque canal and between 1972 and 1973 taught at the Elondo West Combined School. He had a brief spell of work at the Ondangwa government garage before he left to receive military training in Tanzania and the Soviet Union in 1974. He returned to Namibia in 1976 to fight f ...
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Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana
Pendukeni "Penny" Iivula-Ithana (born 11 October 1952) is a Namibian politician who served as the secretary general of SWAPO, Namibia's ruling party, from 2007 to 2012. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia in 1989 and has been a member of Parliament and member of cabinet since independence in 1990. Iivula-Ithana served in several ministerial positions over a span of three decades. Her last ministerial post was in the interior ministry. After criticising the sitting president Hage Geingob and other senior political leaders in November 2017 she was dismissed from cabinet. She also lost her parliamentary seat at the end of the 2015–2020 legislative period. Early life, education and exile Iivula-Ithana was born on 11 October 1952 in Uukwandongo, Ongandjera, Ovamboland.Namibia Institute for Democracy p ...
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Immanuel Ngatjizeko
Immanuel Ngatjizeko (30 May 1952 – 5 March 2022) was a Namibian politician and member of the ruling SWAPO Party. He held five ministerial portfolios from 2003 until his retirement in 2018. Early life and education Immanuel Ngatjizeko was born in Otjohorongo, a village near Omaruru in Namibia's central Erongo Region. He attended the Augustineum Secondary School in Windhoek and then went to study at Fort Hare in South Africa. He graduated with a Diploma in Commerce and Administration in 1976. After his return to South West Africa he worked at the Council of Churches in Namibia until 1994, heading its Finance Department. He then started working full time for SWAPO, first as Managing Director of its investment company Zebra Holdings, and from 1997 as party Secretary for Finance.Profile
from the Namibia Institute for Democracy, 2007

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Loide Kasingo
Loide Lucky Shoopala Kasingo (born 17 February 1954)Loide Kasingo
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is a n politician and prominent trade unionist. A member of the (SWAPO), Kasingo has been a member of the since 1996 and was a deputy minister from 1996 to 2005. She has served as Deputy Speaker of Parliament since 2010.


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Utoni Nujoma
Utoni Daniel Nujoma (born 8 September 1952) is a Namibian politician who serves as Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation since March 2020. He has served in various government ministerial positions in the government since 2010. Nujoma is also a member of both the central committee and the politburo of SWAPO. He is the first born son of Namibia's founding President Sam Nujoma, who was in office as president from 1990 to 2005, and Kovambo Nujoma, the former First Lady of Namibia. Education and early life Nujoma was born in Windhoeks Old Location (now Hochland Park) and raised by his mother Kovambo, as his father, SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma left for exile when Utoni was eight years old. He attended Rhenish Missionary School in Windhoek and later the Augustineum but was expelled in 1972 due to his political activity. In May 1974, Nujoma and his two brothers John and Sacky left to join their father in exile in Angola. In 1974, Nujoma was sent to the Sovie ...
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Albert Kawana
Albert Kawana (born 26 March 1956) is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Kawana has been a member of the National Assembly and cabinet since 2000, serving in various positions. Since April 2021 he is minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security. A lawyer by training, Kawana led Namibia's legal team in the Kasikili Island dispute, which was argued before the International Court of Justice. Early life and education Kawana was born on 26 March 1956 at Katima Mulilo in the Zambezi Region. He entered Namibian politics while in exile in Zambia. In 1979 he graduated from the United Nations Institute for Namibia (UNIN) with a diploma in Development Studies and Management. He moved onto the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, where he received his L.L.M. in 1983 and Ph.D. in 1988. Following graduation, Kawana moved back to Zambia, where he became a lecturer in the final years of UNIN from 1988 to 1990. Career Following Namibia's independence in ...
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Marco Hausiku
Marco Mukoso Hausiku (25 November 1953 – 26 August 2021) was a Namibian politician who was deputy Prime Minister of Namibia from 2010 to 2015. Previously he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2010. In 2017 he was elected deputy secretary general of the Swapo Party at the party's 6th congress. Life and career Hausiku was born on 25 November 1953 in Kapako, Okavango Region (now Kavango West).Profile at Namibian Parliament website
retrieved 5 July 2022. .
Immediately prior to , Hausiku was a SWAPO delegate to the



Joel Kaapanda
Joel Natangwe Kaapanda (born 12 June 1945) is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Kaapanda was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from November 2002 to March 2020. He served in cabinet as Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development from 2002 to 2005, as Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communication from 2005 to 2008, and as Minister of Information and Communication Technology from 2008 to March 2015. Previously he was Namibia's first High Commissioner to India from 1995 to 2002. Career In the 1970s, Kaapanda began his career as a primary school teacher at Nambula Combined School, Omusati Region before joining SWAPO in exile as a political officer in the People's Liberation Army of Namibia from 1978 to 1981. From 1981 to 1986, Kaapanda was the leader of SWAPO students in Hamburg, Germany. On Heroes' Day Heroes' Day or National Heroes' Day may refer to a number of commemoratio ...
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Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila
Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila (born 12 October 1967) is the Prime Minister of Namibia, in office since 21 March 2015. Kuugongelwa-Amadhila is a member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). She has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 1995 and served as Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2015. She is the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Namibia. Early life and education Saara Kuugongelwa was born on 12 October 1967 in Otamanzi, South West Africa (present day Namibia). She went into exile with SWAPO in 1980 at the age of 13 and left for Sierra Leone in 1982 at the age of 15. She attended Koidu Girls Secondary School from 1982 to 1984 and Saint Joseph's Secondary School from 1984 to 1987. From 1991 to 1994, she attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, United States, where she graduated with a MSc in financial economics.Graham HopwooWho's Who, Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, Saara - SwapoNamibian Institute for Democracy Political career Kuugonge ...
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Richard Kamwi
Richard Nchabi Kamwi (born 3 June 1950 in Ioma, Zambezi Region) is a Namibian medical physician and politician.Hopwood, Graham. Guide to Namibian Politics, 2007 edition. Namibia Institute for Democracy, Windhoek, 2007 A member of the National Assembly with the South West Africa People's Organization since 1999, Kamwi was the Minister of Health and Social Services from March 2005 to 2015. After graduating from the Technikon Mmadikoti in Pietersburg, South Africa in 1980, Kamwi became the first black health inspector in Katima Mulilo. After being relieved of his position in 1984, and subsequently arrested for political subversion in 1985, Kamwi went into exile in Botswana. He served in the People's Liberation Army of Namibia until repatriation in 1989. Kamwi resumed his position of health inspector until joining the National Assembly in 1999. In 2000, President Sam Nujoma appointed him to the post of deputy Minister of Health and Social Services under Libertine Amathila Libertin ...
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